KaS Product

{{Short description|French electronic duo}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = KaS Product

| caption = Mona Soyoc and Spatsz

| background = group_or_band

| alias =

| origin =Nancy, France

| genre = Cold wave, minimal wave

| years_active = 1980–1990, 2005–

| label = DSA

| associated_acts=

| website = {{url| KasProduct.com| KasProduct.com}}

| current_members=

| past_members =

• Spatsz (Daniel Favre)
• Mona Soyoc

}}

KaS Product are a French electronic duo. Their music has been considered part of the French cold wave and electropunk movements. Formed in 1980, the duo consisted of Spatsz (Daniel Favre) on electronics and rhythm machines with Mona Soyoc on guitar, vocals and piano. Spatsz worked at a psychiatric hospital previously while Soyoc worked with a jazz band before meeting Spatsz.[http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/kas.product.html Forced exposure.com]

Their music is done in a similar minimal electronics and vocal style akin to Kaleidoscope-era Siouxsie and the Banshees,{{cite journal|title=Perdu de vue : Kas Product|journal=New Noise|issue=13|date=November 2012}} Suicide and Soft Cell. The press compared Soyoc's voice to that of Siouxsie Sioux.For the review of Kas Product's Try Out: Philippe Barbot wrote in Télérama << entre Siouxsie et Alan Vega >>, reproduced in the band's biography - {{cite book|author=Pierre Gillieth |title=KaS Product, So young but so cold |publisher=Camion Blanc|year=2009|isbn=978-2357790209}}
{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/try-out-mw0000344792|author=Ned Raggett|title=Kas Product Try Out [album review]|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=2 February 2011}}
{{cite web|author=Julien Gester|url=https://next.liberation.fr/musique/2019/02/04/spatsz-clavier-du-groupe-kas-product-rend-la-meche_1707424 |title=Spatsz, Clavier du Groupe KaS Product, Rend La Mèche|publisher=Libération|date= 4 February 2019|accessdate= 4 February 2019}}

Their first and second albums were re-released with bonus tracks. Try Out was re-released with five bonus tracks: "Mind", "Seven", "Doctor Insane", "In Need", and "Malena". By Pass was re-released with four bonus tracks: "Scape", "Sweet & Sour", "Crash" and "Party". All of the tracks on both CDs have been remastered.[http://www.side-line.com/news_comments.php?id=5479_0_2_0_C Info about bonus tracks and rerelease]

{{cquote|Gorgeously provocative duo of Mona Soyoc and Spatz who released a couple of singles on their own punk label, then signed to RCA which seemed a remarkably odd union, which produced two blindingly brilliant albums, 'Try Out' and 'Bypass' that found the haunting, mad vocals hemmed in by and stretched out over the alternately boiling/icy keyboards, the shattering chatter of arching/dive bombing guitar and stabbing electronic rhythms. - Mick MercerMick Mercer, Gothic Rock, Los Angeles: Cleopatra Records, p. 112.}}

On 1 February 2019, it was announced that Spatsz had died. He was 61 years old.{{Cite web|url = https://www.post-punk.com/spatsz-from-french-coldwave-duo-kas-product-has-passed-away/|title = Spatsz from French Coldwave Duo Kas Product has Passed Away|website = post-punk.com| date=2 February 2019 |access-date = 2019-02-05}}

Per videos on YouTube with a 2022 copyright, now KaS Product Reload with Thomas Bouetel (machines) and

Pierre Corneau (Basse) joining Mona. Their Facebook activity is current as of September, 2024, and they have several live videos on their Youtube channel from 2024 concerts in France.

A new album, Reloaded, is due to be released at the end of March 2025.